• Avid Media Composer

  Xpress Pro – how to copy and paste Text Parameters?

  Posted by Ron James on February 20, 2007 at 9:22 pm

  Hello, I’m learning my way through an Xpress Pro system right now (v5.2.4 on XP) and frequently consulting Avid help and my QuickPro guide, but one thing I can’t find any info on is this:

  How can I apply some fx parameters to several text cards in a timeline, such as position and scale?

  Dragging the fx icon from the fx editor doesn’t seem to take (maybe b/c it’s text, instead of a real clip?) and I can’t seem to set up a template in my bin that has parameters (so I could simply duplicate it when needed and just fill in the appropriate text).

  I’m a Final Cut Pro cutter by trade, so I’m used to copy and paste attributes. I’m guessing there’s no option like that. However, I can’t find any way to do it, except manually re-entering parameters for every single text card.

  Thanks for any help!

  James

  Jon Zanone replied 19 years, 2 months ago 2 Members · 4 Replies
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  Ron James

  February 21, 2007 at 3:05 am

  Well, I found the quickest way to do this (that I know of, so far)is to just copy and paste the text card within the timeline, then open the card via FX Editor and change the text. Quick and easy.

  Please let me know if there’s an even quicker way. I like to be as fast as possible.
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  Jon Zanone

  February 21, 2007 at 12:25 pm

  I’m not sure I know what a text card is. Could you please explain?

  I think what you are asking is how to save an effect, no?

  If you want to to save the parameters of your effect, you can drag the FX icon from the top right of the effect editor window into your bin. Holding the option key (assuming you are on a Mac) will copy the effect without bringing the media with it (or it could be the command key – my mac seat time is limited these days).

  Is that what you wanted to know?

  Jon
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  Ron James

  February 25, 2007 at 4:57 am

  [Jon Zanone] “you can drag the FX icon from the top right of the effect editor window into your bin. Holding the option key (assuming you are on a Mac) will copy the effect without bringing the media with it (or it could be the command key – my mac seat time is limited these days).”

  Ah, cool! I’ll have to try that. It would definitely be a helpful thing.

  BTW, no, I’m on a windoze machine, unfortunately. If we were on Mac’s, we’d have only a fraction of the downtime due to tech snafu’s.

  When I say a text card, I just mean a frame of text. A single title. Or, more accurately in my case, a placeholder for something that will be put there in the future. For example, if there’s going to be a graphic in the upper corner of frame, I’ll put a text placeholder there that describes what the graphic is going to be (ie – a monkey water skiing) and it would have all the parameters in place already.

  Thanks very much for the tip. This is the kind of stuff I crave so that I can work faster. And I didn’t see ANYTHING like that in the Avid documentation or in the Monohan book I purchased.

  I’ll post back to let you know how it worked for me.

  All the best,

  James
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  Jon Zanone

  February 28, 2007 at 12:33 pm

  Cool – I’m glad it worked. On Windows, hold the alt key whilst dragging.

  Jon

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